Re: preparations for 4.13.2 and 4.12.4

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2020 14:11, Jan Beulich wrote:
> All,
>
> the releases are about due, but will of course want to wait for the
> XSA fixes going public on the 22nd. Please point out backports
> you find missing from the respective staging branches, but which
> you consider relevant. (Ian, Julien, Stefano: I notice there once
> again haven't been any tools or Arm side backports at all so far
> since the most recent stable releases from these branches. But
> maybe there simply aren't any.)
>
> One that I have queued already, but which first need to at least
> pass the push gate to master, are
>
> 8efa46516c5f hvmloader: indicate ACPI tables with "ACPI data" type in e820
> e5a1b6f0d207 x86/mm: do not mark IO regions as Xen heap
> b4e41b1750d5 b4e41b1750d5 [4.14 only]
>
> On the Arm side I'd also like to ask for
>
> 5d45ecabe3c0 xen/arm64: force gcc 10+ to always inline generic atomics helpers
Sounds good to me.

I would also add:

d501ef90ae7f xen/arm: cmpxchg: Add missing memory barriers in 
__cmpxchg_mb_timeout() [4.12+]
Cheers,

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Julien Grall